1. It only becomes useless when you reach lvl 70, so you can skill it if you want to grind all the way through. 2. I'm not an expert with grinding those low levels, but if you find me on Donn9e in-game when I'm awake and not afk I'll give you free orbis etcs to reach level 30.
One more question. I'm level 33. Is it too late to start putting AP into INT for washing, should I start over?
Question for auf if you may, as I don't do this boss enough to fully know. I saw that in your guide you said you're comfortably doing it with 19.1k HP, but I've been told it's necessary to have at least 20k HP so.. what is it? Maybe a stupid question but rather ask it, cuz rn I got 19k~ HP, maybe can get like 100-300 more from excess mp I get as I level. Also, is hw5 good enough to survive as a bucc? I've managed to clear it with hw5 on my dk (zerked, ofc) but it was kinda stressful and maybe lucky, might as well ask. Thanks
19k is enough and hw5 is all you need, I've done it myself for years. It's enough to both survive royal guard touch and double orb (even more so after the nerf to orb damage). Just step back a bit in main stage after a few combos in case your barrage brings you too close to touch range, so you won't get sed into touch damage + orb.
Hmm, noted. And I assume the best combo would be Barr demo to avoid damage as much as possible? or is it Barr DS? cuz I use Barr DS for von leon but is it different with auf?
Barrage + Demo should be the default combo. If you run with a party that can't pin (no other shad/buccs or nls that can hit pin damage) auf can sometimes escape the pin during Demo, so it's better to just Barrage + DS. For the other bosses: Royal guard: Barrage + Demo Core: If you do the right side, Demo spam from the edge of the right most platform is usually the best choice since it's much safer and doesn't deal much less than the full combo, but if you have enough smokes to cover all the mob spawns at 90% and 50% Barrage + Demo is better. Edit: ill update the auf section later to make it clearer
Hi, sorry but it's not this kind of guide, that's why I specifically said that I will only give advice for certain levels, and for the rest you will have to look up an actual leveling guide. Look up the leveling guide or the quests worth doing one, this is not exactly my field. Good luck!
Just wanted to thank you again for this guide. It's been helping me grow and become better. Was able to solo my first "boss" the other day.
Hey! Regarding the alternative HP wash technique. I have blood washed SI mule. So fresh AP has been put to HP. Can i use the alternative technique here? Just take points off the max hp skill and then move HP -> STR? Or do i have for some reason have to move points STR -> HP first?
I don't think I ever replied here so just wanted to stop by and say thank you for this guide, helped me a lot when I just started
Thank you! It does work indeed. AP reset window told -42 hp (i could only reset max hp skill to lvl 1) so i was scared it would not work. But in reality i get only -22 hp. So it works just fine.
Added double transformation cancelling back to the guide! Hopefully this time it's a lot more simplified and consistent. The key to pulling it off without fail is as I wrote: Wait to visually see Barrage going off before you cancel, and your macro should not get stuck anymore. Sorry for taking so long to add this back, there was a lot on my plate @Crags @loaf. Let me know if there are any questions/suggestions about that section!
I have been levelling a bucc and still have level 1 super trans. I've been using barrage and demo and then trying to time demo with super trans expiring to cancel the animation. After, I use your starting combo of super trans + bar demo macro. When I'm effective, it seems to cast 2x demo 1x bar. I'm still a little new to the class. Is this different than double cancel? Is double cancel more efficient?
Yes, it is the same as with both methods you overlap 2x demo + 1x barrage. The method you describe was shown to me a few years ago by @onetwotree (and was the reason I even started looking into transform cancels). The issue with it is that it's ping dependant, if you have high ping (asia/america) this can be pulled off, while europeans will not be able to replicate it consistently. We tested it for a while and concluded it can't be useful for every player, and as a result decided to not include it. There are 2 things to note about this method: 1) It's technically better, as you won't have to wait for barrage animation to go off, resulting in higher DPS. (Though not by much) 2) If you have high enough ping to pull it off, you can also try and combine it with regular transformation to overlap 4 skills: Cancel super transform while in demo -> regular transform + barrage -> cancel -> starter combo. I can't replicate it on my ping though, so I cant go and test it for myself.
